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At the beginning of the year my dad went on an epic four-month cruise trip around the world. As he progressed in his latest attempt to become Manchester’s answer to Phileas Fogg, another collection of photos would drop into our WhatsApp conversation. There he’d be, a tiny outline against the majesty of Egypt’s pyramids or […]

As my stoic baseball-capped companion drives past another dusty, golden-coloured wheat field deep in rural America, the radio starts talking. But in Hitchhiker – A Mystery Game, it’s not just talking, but talking to me. This surreal interactive visual novel plays out like On the Road if Jack Kerouac had taken even more illicit substances […]

In space, no one can hear you struggle to work out which button to press. And that’s precisely what you’ll spend a lot of your time doing in GhostShark’s psychological point-and-click sci-fi adventure Still There. Half “Firewatch in space” with its engaging story of isolation, grief and loss aboard a ship, and half “Papers Please […]

Fans of the bi-monthly podcast Welcome To Night Vale may notice a lot of that fictional radio show's horror-stricken town in the surroundings of D'Avekki Studios’ latest full motion video offering, Dark Nights with Poe & Munro. There are plenty of similarities to the work of director David Lynch, and specifically his eerie TV masterpiece […]

Intricate storylines, nuanced characters, and beautiful 2D environments. When you think of Wadjet Eye Games, all of these elements spring to mind. So it was with some surprise to hear that the latest sci-fi production they’re working on, Technobablyon: Birthright, a sequel to James Dearden’s 2015 Technobablyon, would be in 3D. Curious to find out […]

For the sixth year in a row, a warehouse in Wapping, London recently played host to a crowd of cosplayers, developers, gaming enthusiasts and *ahem* journalists, all uniting under one very high roof for EGX Rezzed. The event, held over three days, may well be the younger and smaller brother of EGX (previously Eurogamer Expo), […]

The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game   Whether faced with a possible ghost infestation or ruined parade decorations, there’s something about the charmingly carefree way that everybody in the Frog Detective universe brushes off issues and just gets on with their lives that makes it a very appealing place to want to dip into […]

Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard   Whether faced with a possible ghost infestation or ruined parade decorations, there’s something about the charmingly carefree way that everybody in the Frog Detective universe brushes off issues and just gets on with their lives that makes it a very appealing place to want to […]

The 15th annual British Academy Games Awards took place on a rather drizzly Thursday evening at the Queen Elizabeth Hall of the Southbank Centre in London last week. With it came the best of the videogame industry to celebrate and praise the work of their colleagues, and get a little tipsy in the process. Whilst […]

Rather than scouring crime scenes, sees you play as an unseen, unnamed detective trying to break into the murky world of an underground terrorist group by gaining information through increasingly difficult – you guessed it – interrogations. But contrary to what the title says, don’t be deceived: whilst there are paragraphs of text to read, […]